Product Stewardship (Oil) Amendment (Re-refined Base Oil) Regulations 2020 (Cth)

Product Stewardship (Oil) Amendment (Re‑refined Base Oil) Regulations 2020

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 03 September 2020

David Hurley

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

Sussan Ley

Minister for the Environment

Contents

1Name

This instrument is the Product Stewardship (Oil) Amendment (Re-refined Base Oil) Regulations 2020.

2Commencement

1. (1)

   Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	8 September 2020

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

1. (2)

   Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3Authority

This instrument is made under the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000.

4Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Product Stewardship (Oil) Regulations 2000

1

After regulation 4

Insert:

4AAAdditional amount of benefit—re‑refined base oil

Application of regulation

1. (1)

   This regulation applies if:

   1. (a)

      product stewardship (oil) benefit is payable in respect of recycled oil for a claim period; and

   2. (b)

      apart from this regulation, the amount of the benefit is the amount mentioned in item 1 of the table in subregulation 4(1) (about re‑refined base oil); and

   3. (c)

      the entitlement to the benefit arose or arises:

      1. (i)

         on or after 1 July 2020; and

      2. (ii)

         on or before 31 December 2020.

2. (2)

   For the purposes of subregulation (1), it does not matter:

   1. (a)

      whether a claim for payment of the benefit was made before, on or after the commencement of this regulation; and

   2. (b)

      whether any amount of the benefit was paid before that commencement.

Additional amount

1. (3)

   If this regulation applies, the benefit includes an amount of 12 cents/l in addition to the amount mentioned in item 1 of the table in subregulation 4(1).

2

Regulation 4A (at the end of the heading)

Add “—industrial burning oils”.